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Strategic Prioritization: Resilient Cities
Test Your Strategic Investment Decisions
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Simulation games turn complex strategic decisions into interactive experiences, giving leaders a low-risk way to test choices, explore tradeoffs, and see potential consequences. The Strategic Prioritization game designed by experts at CAPTRS helps local leaders explore how today's investments in opportunities and risk mitigations shape their community's ability to thrive through an uncertain future.
Local governments face competing priorities, limited resources, and no shortage of risks. Teams playing the game can assess their community's strengths and vulnerabilities, invest limited resources across competing priorities, and then see how their choices perform as the future unfolds through a simulation. The game presents a set of opportunity and risk mitigation categories to explore.
Opportunity & Risk Categories
Opportunity Categories
Critical Infrastructure- Emergency Services
- Community Preparedness
- Public Warning
- Data-Driven Operations
Risk Mitigation Categories
- Reduce Hazard Exposure
- Overcome Coordination Failures
- Protect the Vulnerable
- Counter Eroding Trust
- Harden Against Cyberattack
Strategic Prioritization: Resilient Cities Helps Communities
- Surface priorities and assumptions that traditional planning discussions can miss
- Experience tradeoffs before committing real resources
- Explore uncertainty and see how different strategies perform against changing futures
- Build alignment across departments, leaders, and community partners
- Identify strengths and vulnerabilities that can inform future planning and investment
What's Included
Each game of Strategic Prioritization: Resilient Cities includes:
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This is a great alternative option to typical PowerPoints and discussion-based meetings. The game can be used at leadership retreats, strategic planning sessions, cross-department workshops, and as a community feedback tool.
